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Competition and Chaos : U.S. Telecommunications since the 1996 Telecom Act /

"Examines how the 1996 Telecommunications Act and its antecedents have affected the major telecommunications providers and analyzes the act's effect on economic welfare in the United States"--Provided by publisher.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Crandall, Robert W.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, 2005.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Opening telecom markets : the 1996 Telecommunications Act
  • The first eight years under the new law
  • Local competition under the 1996 act
  • Effect of the 1996 act on incumbent local companies
  • The death of distance and of the long-distance carriers
  • The rapid growth of wireless telecommunications
  • The broadband revolution
  • Telecom reform in other countries
  • A look back and a look forward
  • Appendix. estimates of Bell Company cumulative capital expenditures across states, 1996?-2003.